Their answer in the connect issue is dancing around the issue--at least give us a way to control whether or not the newlines are added, and leave them by default. Or when 3.5 came out this could have been fixed then.

Re: Newlines should not automatically be added to TITLE tag

White space doesn't matter in html or xml. spaces are &nbsp; You're talking about two line carrige return line feeds. Good luck with getting the html to not prettyprint on every browser in the world and making it work on world wide scale.